THE FIRM "Chapter 9-10"

Chapter 9 “ Grand Cayman ”

Summary

Mitch and Avery Tolleson left for the Cayman Islands to do some tax work for a client. They settled into the firm’s apartments on Seven Mile Beach and Avery Suggested they go to an open-air bar on the beach. Then Mitch meets a pair of sisters. One girl went for a walk along the beach with him. There was darkness and alone. A girl approached him. She reminded him of Abby, Mitch’s wife. They made love. Next day, Mitch go to Abanks Diving School for speak with Barry Abanks Barry’s son, Philip Abanks. He was killed.

Vocabulary

Persuade = To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc

Cheerfully = In a cheerful manner, gladly.

Wander = To travel over without a certain course.

Engine = Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Drowned = To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Approach =The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

Distance = Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.

Recognize = To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.


Chapter10 “ Dangerous Water ”

Summary

Lomax have news about all three of the dead lawyers had died in mysterious circumstances. It’s very interesting . Frist, Alice Knauss was killed by lorry that had been stolen. The driver drove straight in to her car and then run away. He was never found. Second, Robert Lamm, the hunter, his body was found in a part of the forest where there was few animals and the hunter didn’t usually go. It didn’t look like an accident. Third, Mickel’s letter was not handwritten and he had never bought a gun in his life. It seem to Mitch was swimming in dangerous waters. Then Mitch go to meet his wife to told her about Eddie Lomax and the five dead lawyers, how he suspected that none of their deaths was quiet what it seemed to be. And told her about their home is bugged and someone at Bendini, Lambert&Locke everything he do. He was very careful about what he said on the phone.

vocabulary

Mysterious = difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained

lorry =A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations

respectable =Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

Rush =The act of running

Investigate = To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena

inspect = To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

Badge = distinctive mark , Something characteristic, a mark, a token, sign.

Amazing = very wonderful

Agent = One who acts for, or in the place of